The Sudanese army said on Tuesday it had gained further ground in the battle for Khartoum, claiming control of key sites in the Bahri district, including areas in Shambat and Old Bahri. The army’s advances included the former Parachute Corps headquarters,
We lost everything in the war, but we did not lose our love for our city, Khartoum. If we had surrendered then and been afraid to film, we would have regretted it for the rest of our lives. I think the most beautiful thing is that we were a team of directors and partners,
Meters From Andriivka,” Ukrainian director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov, whose previous film “ 20 Days in Mariupol ” won Best Documentary at the Oscars, once again captures unsettling images from the frontlines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It’s real people with real dreams, with real hopes, that live in the most current of situations.”Speaking over Zoom with his fellow directors, Sudanese filmmaker Timeea Ahmed is explaining the essence of Khartoum,
Khartoum is a poetic documentary that retraces the stories of five Sudanese refugees during the coup and outbreak of the civil war. The film, directed by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Tomeea Mohamed Ahmed and Phil Cox, is part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan.
The Sudanese army broke a paramilitary siege on one of its key Khartoum-area bases on Friday, paving the way to also freeing the besieged military headquarters, a military source said.
The Sudanese army has secured the perimeter of the country’s main oil refinery. However, fires continued to burn at the facility for a fifth day, the military said on Sunday. The army announced on Saturday it had seized full control of the al-Jaili refinery,
Their country's war rarely tops global news bulletins, and Sudan has never had a film at Sundance before. Ahmad, who has a background in journalism, said he hopes the film can prove more effective than his previous news work,
Karim Khan told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that crimes are being committed in Darfur "as we speak and daily," and are being used as a weapon of war.
“To make life easier for women, surviving the war requires collective work and strength in solidarity,” said Huyam*, a mutual aid volunteer from southeastern Sennar state, where the army now controls key areas after an advance last year by the RSF.